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The Lady Eve
When you deal a fast shuffle, love is in the cards.
When you deal a fast shuffle, love is in the cards.
Comedy, Romance - 1941
The Lady Eve
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It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
Director:
,
Preston Sturges
Cast:
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Henry Fonda
,
Eugene Pallette
,
Melville Cooper
,
Charles Coburn
,
Barbara Stanwyck
,
William Demarest
,
Eric Blore
,
Martha O'Driscoll
,
Janet Beecher

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Details

Runtime:
97 min
Release date:
25 Feb 1941
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$660,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 1 nomination total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Barbara Stanwyck is the sexiest con woman ever captured on film.
– Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal,
16 Jun 2012
fresh:
Third writer-director effort of Preston Sturges [from a story by Monckton Hoffe] is laugh entertainment of top proportions with its combo of slick situations, spontaneous dialog and a few slapstick falls tossed in for good measure.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
13 Nov 2007
fresh:
Preston Sturges extended his range beyond the crazy farces that had made his reputation with this romantic 1941 comedy, and his hand proved just as sure.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
13 Nov 2007
fresh:
A beguilingly ribald sex comedy, spattered with characteristic Sturges slapstick.
– Tom Milne,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
Now there's no question about it: Preston Sturges is definitely and distinctly the most refreshing new force to hit the American motion pictures in the past five years.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
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